Computerized Maintenance Management System Design

Abstract

The safety and reliability of medical equipment is mandatory. The effective maintenance management of medical technology influences the quality of care delivered and the profitability of healthcare facilities. Equipment may be used on the patients who are unconscious, other types of medical equipment function as life support and their failure may result in the patient's death when the machine is in use. Medical device maintenance in Sudan lacks an objective prioritization system; consequently, the system does not exist nor sensitive to the impact of devices down time on work flow in the healthcare facilities. The CMMS system has been developed to enable the existing facility’s maintenance engineers to improve their maintenance management of the medical equipment.The system would enable the hospitals achieve optimum utilization of hospital equipment and improve the management of medical equipment. The designed system covers different aspects of equipment management such as maintenance, inventory and can provide reports based on device types or hospital units in the healthcare facilities. The system evaluated by ten biomedical engineering departments and the result of evaluation proved the achivement of the project objectives. The proposed design simplicity, time efficancy ,reliablity and data safety over the current paper based system make it a helpful tool for the biomedical engineering departments considerd in the evaluation process.